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Graceblade Artisan

Creature — Human Monk2 generic manaWhite mana

The payoff that gives Aura-based decks a reason to risk the two-for-one. The recurring problem with suiting up a single creature is card economy: every enchantment you commit dies with the body, and a well-timed removal spell turns three cards into one. This Monk answers by scaling with each Aura it carries, so a board with two enchantments on it is already a 6/7, and the slope only steepens from there. The 2/3 base is the tell: it does nothing on offense, which is the price for a buff that compounds without a cap. Each Aura is worth +2/+2 in raw stats on top of whatever the enchantment itself grants, so even a humble buff doubles as a power swing here in a way it would not on another creature. It belongs to the lineage of Voltron enablers that ask you to overcommit and hope your opponent blinks first, sharing a bloodline with Kor Spiritdancer and the heroic creatures that reward stacking cheap auras. The difference is the math: Spiritdancer draws cards to refuel the gamble; this one simply makes the gamble bigger, converting every attached enchantment into a threat the defender cannot ignore. Whether that tradeoff is worth the cards committed (the creature plus the auras feeding it) is the question the card poses every time it lands.

Graceblade Artisan (dtk)
DTK · #20uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.46
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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